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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I really loved this book when I was eight or so, but upon rereading I was surprised to find how preachy and didactic it was. Also all the "poor suffering animal" stuff is such a downer. Ah well, it's still a classic in my book. (  )Mialro | May 24, 2009 |   My dad bought me a beautiful copy of this when I was in the 3rd grade (which is the one I still have!) and couldn't understand all of the vocabulary yet. I still read it every other year or so. Love it! (  )redwoodcorners | May 19, 2009 | a classic- must read!! ( )liisa22 | May 6, 2009 | Its a story about a horse that has its good times with good people and some bad times with bad people.He makes friends along the way he cheats death and its a very good book ( )room6 | May 5, 2009 | Black Beauty is a great book about a horse. This story starts when he is a foal and goes through his ups and downs of his life as a horse. I love horses and I love this book. I could read this book over and over. Even though you probably would not think about how long a horse lives and what kind of life one would have and this story is all about that. I would really like to read this book to my students. I think they would really like it. I would love to do a unit over horses and read other horse books. I could have them write a little story about a horse or have them draw horse. ( )LauraWade | Mar 11, 2009 | 0.066 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0439228905, Mass Market Paperback)A horse is a horse of course unless of course the horse is Black Beauty. Animal-loving children have been devoted to Black Beauty throughout this century, and no doubt will continue through the next. Although Anna Sewell's classic paints a clear picture of turn-of-the-century London, its message is universal and timeless: animals will serve humans well if they are treated with consideration and kindness.Black Beauty tells the story of the horse's own long and varied life, from a well-born colt in a pleasant meadow to an elegant carriage horse for a gentleman to a painfully overworked cab horse. Throughout, Sewell rails--in a gentle, 19th-century way--against animal maltreatment. Young readers will follow Black Beauty's fortunes, good and bad, with gentle masters as well as cruel. Children can easily make the leap from horse-human relationships to human-human relationships, and begin to understand how their own consideration of others may be a benefit to all. (Ages 9 to 12) (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:20 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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